Web Summit Lisbon 2022 - 1 Day - incl. the speaking of the Whistle Blower Mark MacGann (UBER files)

Hey Ho Guys, I hope you are all doing well so far.

Today I present you 30 mins of the first day of Web Summit 2022 in Lisbon. Hopefully we will see #Hive aka @Rolandp for example next year there.

Even if Hive don't wanna make commercials THIS event is the place to be for the tech scene and when EOS, Binance,filecoin, or 1inches can be there HIVE can do it better for sure! And @Rolandp you would look great on stage.

If necessary your whole Hive followers would support it and help you to get on the stage there. I mean, when Changpeng Zhao can do that... You @Rolandp can do sooooo much better!!!!

Anyway, lets get backk to the main topic here (please @Rolandp think about that opportunity, the registrations for 2023 are open now... Lets gooooo... Lets show HIVE!!!)

I didn't film all the speakers from start to finish, but present some excerpts from their speeches.

Among the speakers I filmed are for example Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, footballer and entrepreneur Patrice Evra and UBER Files whistle blower Mark MacGann. All speakers are briefly listed at the beginning of the video. Please forgive the sound quality, it was given by the event and I could not improve it. Some speakers were too close to the pavilions, so you can hear the noise of the visitors. Also, some speakers either spoke too quietly (so that I could not even understand them properly on site) or their micros were set too low.

Only the whistleblower Mark MacGann (UBER Files) I filmed completely. There is only 1 minute missing at the end.

The 15 minute speech was in the main hall and had the best sound quality.

"Push a button, get a ride': disruption without destruction"

Was the title of the talk.

Mark MacGann, was the senior executive behind the "Uber Files" at the time, and talks to Paul Lewis, head of research at The Guardian (who also published the scandal) at Web Summit about why he blew the whistle on the company, what his life has been like since, and why he believes founders and investors need to learn from Uber's mistakes.

What are the UBER files?

The well-known Uber company broke laws, deceived police and secretly lobbied governments behind hidden doors, a leak had revealed.

More than 124,000 confidential documents were leaked to the Guardian by Mark MacGann.
These files revealed attempts to influence Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne. What's inconceivable. But not enough.

The files revealed that even Emmanuel Macron secretly supported Uber's lobbying efforts in France.

The UBER company used "kill switches" in raids to prevent police from viewing data.

An entire stack of confidential files has revealed how tech giant Uber broke and flouted laws during its aggressive global expansion, severely misled police, even used violence against its own drivers, and secretly lobbied governments.

The unprecedented leak of more than 124,000 documents to the Guardian, infamously known as the Uber files, exposes the ethically questionable practices that had fueled UBER's transformation into one of Silicon Valley's best-known exports.

The leak spans a 5-year period during which Uber was led by its co-founder Travis Kalanick, who sought to establish the cab service in cities around the world, even if that meant breaking many laws and cab regulations for him.

During the fierce global backlash, data shows how the Uber company tried to secure its support by very discreetly siding with prime ministers, presidents, billionaires, oligarchs and media barons.

Leaked messages suggest that Uber executives at the time had no illusions about the company's violations of the law:
One executive joked that they had become "pirates," while another quipped, "We're just illegal as hell."

It was Mark MacGann who brought it to light that Uber's former chief lobbyist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa is involved in the scandal, and Mister MacGann also revealed himself as the source aka whistleblower of the leaked data.

"It's my duty to speak up and help governments and parliamentarians correct some fundamental mistakes."

Mark MacGann said.

"Morally, I had no choice in the matter.

The published files, spanning 2013 to 2017, include more than 83,000 emails, iMessages and WhatsApp messages, including often candid and unvarnished communications between Kalanick and his top team of executives.

Source:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Files

This talk was actually the most interesting on Day 1 of the Web Summit. I hope you found my impressions and video good and interesting despite the lack of sound quality.

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